[ale] HOW2 locate bad ram chip ?

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Fri Jan 13 16:58:15 EST 2006


Boot to a Gentoo LiveCD and type "memtest86" at the boot prompt.

Google  "memtest86" for  boot floppy versions, more info, etc.

Jeff

Courtney Thomas wrote:

>I'm all of a sudden getting core dumps/seg faults and other anomalous 
>happenings on my machine.
>
>Is there any free software that'll test/report a bad chip ?
>
>Thanks once again,
>
>Courtney
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